There is little truth left in the food industry any more.
We consumers can be trusting and gullible and food manufacturers have managed to spin the science of selling us inorganic crap while getting us to believe it's actually good for us. There is little effort by the mainstream food industry to make foods healthy because of the cost factors. However, they make a big effort to market them to appear to be healthy. Unnatural products that weren't labeled healthy two years ago are now relabeled "all natural" to acquire status in the healthy food section of supermarkets and wholefood stores. Same ingredients, new jargon. It's all about marketing to the conscious consumer. In order to ensure that those choices you make are authentic, read the label. If you can't pronounce any of the ingredients, don't buy it. Natural things tend not to have five syllables in their name.
By the way, here is the classic quote of the wee:
CONGRESS AGRICULTURE CHAIR COLLIN PETERSON:
'PAYING MORE FOR ORGANIC OR LOCAL FOOD IS "DUMB"
'Organic Consumers Letters to Rep. Collin Peterson
11/13/2007 -The following are letters written by organic consumers in response
to his comments that buying organic and local is dumb. Collin Peterson, chairman
of the House of Representatives agricultural committee, says the farm
sector that raises organic produce and grass-fed beef for local consumers
needs little federal help. “It is growing, and it has nothing to do with the government,
and that is good,” he told the FT. “For whatever reason, people are
willing to pay two or three times as much for something that says ‘organic’ or
‘local’. Far be it from me to understand what that’s about, but that’s reality.
And if people are dumb enough to pay that much then hallelujah.
”http://organicconsumers.org/comments/petersonletters071113.pdf
To send a message to Collin Peterson (Democrat, MN) congratulating him for getting the Organic Consumers Association award for the dumbest quote of the week:
THE FOLLOWING ARE LETTERS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED TO MR. PETERSON:
www.organicconsumers.org
Feel free to lobby Collin and tell him your considered opinion.
collinpeterson.house.gov
House Agriculture Committee Chair
Collin Peterson
Washington Office:
2211 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-2307
Phone: (202) 225-2165
Fax: (202) 225-1593